North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe

North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe Backhoe fili-comedens AKA “Big Yellow Fiber Finder”, “That $h%# @^” Continent: North America Habitat: Mostly urban, occasionally sighted in suburbs or rural areas Diet: Fiber optic cables, although it will consume other cables such as power lines when hungry Weight: 5800 - 11000 kg (approx. 13000 - 25000 lbs) Known for its inexhaustable appetite for buried fiber optic cables, this invasive species has multiplied across North America in recent years. A relative, the Fiber-UrSeeking Backhoe, has also emerged across the Atlantic, although it has evolved to be smaller than the North American variety due to smaller European roadways. Scientists are still seeking a means to reduce the multiplication of this species; since current regulatory methods are proving ineffective, limited hunting permits are being proposed. IUCN STATUS Too F$#% Many Not Threatened Vulnerable Endangered Critically Endangered Extinct in the Wild

A fake wildlife encyclopedia entry presents a yellow backhoe as the North American fiber-seeking backhoe, complete with a scientific name, habitat, diet, range map, and conservation status. The joke treats construction equipment that digs up buried fiber-optic cables as an invasive animal species, exaggerating its appetite and suggesting hunting permits because regulation has failed. It is used as an absurd reaction to repeated internet or utility construction problems.

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